Hello. Can anyone tell me what the HTML DSL equivalent of ```<section data-markdown> ... <...

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[pambrose]

Hello. Can anyone tell me what the HTML DSL equivalent of

<section  data-markdown> ... </section>

would be? In other words, how are tag attributes with no values expressed in the DSL?

[SerVB]

I guess it can have any value, like "true"

[pambrose]

Yes, I know how to express tag attributes with values.

<section  id="test"> ... </section>

is written as:

section { attributes["id"] = "test" }

but I am asking about the case where the tag attribute is not assigned a value.

[pambrose]

An example of the html I am trying to generate is line 39 of this file: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/blob/0582f57517c97a4c7bfeb58762138c78883f94c5/examples/markdown.html#L39

You can see the

data-markdown

tag attribute is not assigned a value.

[SerVB]

Does it work when you write <section data-markdown> ... </section> as section { attributes["data-markdown"] = "true" }? I don't remember JS well but I think it should. In JS, there should be the same problem of accessing attributes without values, I think there should be just any value

[pambrose]

If you assign it "true" it generates:

<section data-markdown="true"> ... </section>

which is not the same thing (and causes problems).

[SerVB]

causes problems

Then I don't know. But actually I'm interested what problems does it cause. Why do you need exactly ``<section data-markdown> ... </section>`` without a value of the attribute?

[pambrose]

I am wrapping the reveal.js framework and and adding the "true" value results in the markdown not displaying properly. I do not know JS well enough to dig into the problem. I just want to give it what it wants.

[tateisu]

<section data-markdown> is same to <section data-markdown="data-markdown">

[tateisu]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Attribute

[tateisu]

You may see attributes without the equals sign or a value. That is a shorthand for providing the empty string in HTML, or the attribute’s name in XML.

[tateisu]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes

[tateisu]

To be clear, the values "`true`" and "`false`" are not allowed on boolean attributes.

[pambrose]

Thank you very much @tateisu.